Corby care home rated inadequate complains about inspectors' 'offensive language'

Corby care home rated inadequate complains about inspectors' 'offensive language' A care home placed into special measures has accused inspectors of "offensive and derogatory language".

Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors rated Willowbrook House in Corby, Northamptonshire, as inadequate.

They reported "unopened medical appointment letters" and out of stock prescription medicines.

The CQC requested further information about the complaint which it has now received and will investigate. BBC Northampton

How feasible are the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan commitments on training?

How feasible are the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan commitments on training? The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets out ambitious aims to increase training places across NHS clinical professions, including a near doubling of medical school training places and nursing education and training places in England by 2031/32.  

To meet these commitments, our analysis suggests that the proportion of first-year higher education students training to be NHS clinical professionals would need to increase by 50% over this period. Based on current trends, this would mean that students training to be NHS clinical professionals would make up around 1 in 6 of all first-year students in 2031/32, up from 1 in 9 in 2022/23. The Health Foundation

See also:

• Landmark NHS recruitment plan in danger from applicant shortfall The Observer 

New inserts in cigarette packs to help smokers quit

New inserts in cigarette packs to help smokers quit The government will seek views on adding pack inserts into tobacco products to encourage more smokers to quit as it launches a new consultation today.

Placed inside the packaging of cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco, they would contain positive messages to encourage people to quit and signpost them to advice and support. The messages set out the health benefits of quitting - for example, improvements to breathing within a matter of days and a 50% reduction in the risk of heart attack within a year - as well as showing smokers how much money they stand to save by giving up, with the average person likely to save over £2,000 per year if they quit. Department of Health and Social Care

NHS to roll out flu vaccines for children from September

NHS to roll out flu vaccines for children from September Millions of children in England will be offered a flu vaccine from September, as the NHS steps up its life-saving vaccination programme to protect the country against deadly viruses ahead of winter.

School aged children will be able to get the flu vaccine at school or at community clinics, and those with long term health conditions can also get the vaccine at GP surgeries. Children aged two and three years will be able to get an appointment with their GP practice. NHS England

Two-thirds of cancer waiting time targets to be axed in England

Two-thirds of cancer waiting time targets to be axed in England Two-thirds of NHS cancer waiting time targets are expected to be scrapped in England, in a move the health service says aims to catch cancers earlier.

NHS bosses want to reduce the number of targets, most of which have been routinely missed in recent years, from nine to three.

They say the plan is backed by leading cancer experts and will simplify the "outdated" standards.

But the head of the Radiotherapy UK charity said she is "deeply worried". BBC News

See also:

• Ministers face backlash as cancer waiting time targets are set to be dropped The Daily Mail
• NHS in England to replace two-week cancer appointment target The Guardian
• Health Secretary expected to confirm scrapping of two-thirds of cancer targets ITV News
• Health secretary does not deny some cancer waiting time targets may be scrapped Sky News

Steve Barclay calls talks with Scotland and Wales on cutting NHS waiting lists

Steve Barclay calls talks with Scotland and Wales on cutting NHS waiting lists The health secretary has invited the Welsh and Scottish governments to discuss how best to tackle NHS waiting lists, as millions wait for hospital treatment across the UK.

Steve Barclay accused them of having worse delays than England in some cases - but they disputed the figures.

Hospital waiting lists in England hit a record 7.57 million people in June.

Mr Barclay also said he was open to Scottish and Welsh patients being treated in England. BBC News

See also:

• UK Health Secretary steps in to offer long-term waiting list support in Wales and Scotland Department of Health and Social Care
• Correspondence: Letter from Health Secretary to devolved administrations Department of Health and Social Care
• Steve Barclay ‘open to’ Scottish and Welsh NHS patients requesting care in England The Guardian
• Steve Barclay ‘open to requests’ for patients from Scotland to be treated on NHS in England iNews
• Health secretary 'open to requests' for Scotland and Wales patients to be treated in England Sky News

Cancer breakthrough as groundbreaking trials see seriously ill patients go into remission

Cancer breakthrough as groundbreaking trials see seriously ill patients go into remission roundbreaking cancer trials are producing “incredibly impressive” results, with seriously ill people going into remission for months and years, according to a leading hospital.

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester said its experimental work into blood cancers such as myeloma is seeing the vast majority of patients responding to treatment with seriously ill people going into remission for months and years.

At the moment, the trust has around 30 clinical trials in progress for blood cancer, including five for myeloma, a disease that develops from plasma cells in the bone marrow. The Independent

See also:

• Hope for blood cancer patients after immunotherapy drug trials show 'groundbreaking results' The Daily Mail
• Experimental drugs kick cancer into remission after all other treatments failed Metro

Sunak’s ‘intransigence’ on pay will lead to more NHS strikes, warns top doctor

Sunak’s ‘intransigence’ on pay will lead to more NHS strikes, warns top doctor Rishi Sunak’s “increasingly intransigent” and “belligerent” stance on medics’ pay is blocking the path to ending the industrial action in the NHS, leaving no option but to strike until the next general election, one of Britain’s top doctors has warned.

Speaking to the Guardian on Friday after junior doctors launched a fifth round of industrial action, Prof Philip Banfield, the chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) council, said the union was standing firm and that doctors would continue to hold stoppages until they received a “credible offer”. The Guardian

Almost THIRD of GPs 'forced' to stop taking bookings for routine appointments

Almost THIRD of GPs 'forced' to stop taking bookings for routine appointments Almost a third of GPs had to stop taking bookings for routine appointments in the past year because of overwhelming demand, a poll suggests.

Receptionists also faced abuse from patients when they were unable to offer a consultation amid a shortage of family doctors.

The survey of 408 GPs for Pulse magazine found 30 per cent had to stop taking bookings for routine appointments between June 2022 and June 2023. The Daily Mail

NHS has spent £4million paying property taxes for EMPTY buildings in last three years

NHS has spent £4million paying property taxes for EMPTY buildings in last three years The NHS has spent almost £4million paying property taxes on empty buildings in just three years, official figures reveal.

Dozens of hospitals, more than 15 GP surgeries and nursing homes and 22 office blocks are lying vacant, according to statistics from NHS Property Services.

The figure, uncovered by a Freedom of Information request from the TaxPayers' Alliance, could pay for around 120 junior doctors or 140 newly-qualified nurses. The Daily Mail

Fears over safety of YOUR sensitive data as shock probe reveals bungling NHS staff have wrongly handed over confidential data hundreds of times in last two years

Fears over safety of YOUR sensitive data as shock probe reveals bungling NHS staff have wrongly handed over confidential data hundreds of times in last two years Bungling NHS staff have wrongly disclosed confidential data hundreds of times in the last two years.

Never-before-seen data, obtained by MailOnline, reveals 1,600 data breaches have been logged in the health service across the UK since 2021. 

Breaches include staff faxing or emailing sensitive details to the wrong person and leaving documents lying around. The Daily Mail